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    Alexa Goes Handsfree!

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    • bheplerB Offline
      bhepler Module Developer @d3r
      last edited by

      @d3r Wait, what? You can use Alexa’s voice service to activate on whatever phrase you like?

      Oh, this is too awesome. My wife and were trying to get our echo to wake on “Hey Asshole” (it’s a literary reference, honest) and it wouldn’t let us. I’m going to get to work on a new mirror…

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        d3r
        last edited by d3r

        @bhepler Are you running it from your pi or do you have the echo/dot?
        If you are using the pi then yes you can customize the wake word which will trigger it into listening mode.

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        • KirAsh4K Offline
          KirAsh4 Moderator
          last edited by

          “Hey Dingdong!”
          “Yow Tweedledumb!”

          Or make it interactive:

          “Hey Cheech!”
          “Yes Chong?”

          A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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            darrene
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            I’ve jsut set up an Amazon dev account and installing the Alexa pi code to have a play with.

            During the install, I see
            Configuration file ‘/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf’
            ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
            ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
            What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
            Y or I : install the package maintainer’s version
            N or O : keep your currently-installed version
            D : show the differences between the versions
            Z : start a shell to examine the situation
            The default action is to keep your current version.
            *** lightdm.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?

            I think I should answer ‘Y’ to keep the installer happy, but thought it worth checking - @d3r can I ask what you chose?

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              d3r @darrene
              last edited by d3r

              @darrene I would say press D to see what the difference is then you’ll have a better idea on how to proceed.
              Edit:
              I just ran an update on my pi and got the same prompt. lightdm is a display manager and not directly related to alexa.
              https://wiki.debian.org/LightDM

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                darrene
                last edited by

                Ah, thtat’s great. Thanks @d3r.
                All good now

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                  d3r @darrene
                  last edited by

                  @darrene Nice. Alexa is working now?

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                    darrene @d3r
                    last edited by darrene

                    @d3r not quite - I’m almost there but trying to login to my AWS mirror profile after authorising it and I’m failing their ridiculous ‘type the characters you see in this image’ challenge :)

                    Edit: At last! through…

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                      darrene
                      last edited by darrene

                      It’s awesome :)

                      I’ve had Alexa tell me the day, a joke and asked her a maths question.

                      A quick demo (YouTube)

                      The detection is spot on and the response time is pretty acceptable

                      The sooner this can get made into a module the better :)

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                      • KirAsh4K Offline
                        KirAsh4 Moderator
                        last edited by KirAsh4

                        The changes to the lightdm config file is probably what it’s warning you about. Remember during the MM installation, you should’ve edited that file to turn off the screen blanking. So you should always do a comparison between what your file looks like and what the vendor is releasing and apply the changes as needed.

                        A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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